Word for Word: A Translator's Memoir of Literature, Politics, and Survival in Soviet Russia by Lilianna Lungina

Word for Word: A Translator's Memoir of Literature, Politics, and Survival in Soviet Russia

Lilianna Lungina

419 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

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A remarkable memoir of living in the Soviet Union and working as a literary translator.   In the early twentieth century, Lilianna Lungina was a Russian Jew born to privilege, spending her childhood in Germany, France, and Palestine. But when she ...

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